Thanks everyone for sending over your applications to our player groups and minor factions! Over the past few months we’ve added hundreds of you to our database! It’s been really exciting stuff. We’ve had a busy few months, and that has slowed our process, so unfortunately we have seen some delays in processing requests. With that being said, I’m going to add a few posts below on getting everything up to par and everyone up to speed with where we are at and how the process functions for player groups and minor factions going from this point onward.

Community Manager

Good news commanders, you can create a minor faction in Elite Dangerous! Please read this entire post to figure out what is what and what goes where!

So what does a minor faction get me in Elite Dangerous?

Your minor factions name will show up in a system of your choosing along with the description provided.

You will have to manage your minor factions economy within the system.

Minor factions will be added with preset values in the system, you will be required to build up your minor faction.

What’s the limitations and policies for a minor faction?

Your minor faction’s system has to be in a system with a population of at least ONE.

Your minor faction’s name must be related to Elite Dangerous or the lore of Elite.

We cannot accept general minor faction names unrelated to Elite.

You can only have one minor faction at any given time.

No Faction Swapping. Your desired minor faction has to be the same as the systems faction.

Factions cannot be located in systems deemed to have significant lore importance (full list in the form below).

A description of your minor faction is required.

Please no more than 640 characters including spaces.

Do not use symbols, just a-z and 0-9 text and general punctuation.

Description ONLY IN English only.

Absolutely NO URL's / links - it will be rejected.

The requested system must also contain a star port.

You must have completed the group registration process from above.

Any other limits and info that I should know about? Yeah, a little...

We will not accept any edit requests after your submission to the form below.

Absolutely no recruitment messages or website links.

Your minor factions description HAS TO CONFORM to the lore of Elite.

You are permitted to have one minor faction.

All "addon" minor factions that have been confirmed as a squatting minor faction will be removed. In addition to the main minor faction.

How long is the process between submitting this form below and it showing up in the game?
Between one and three months.

Can I request updates to my submission after submitting the form below?
No.

Can I request to have my PMF in a particular station?
No. The BGS decides.

Can I request my station to have something special in it?
No.

Can I request to have special content in my PMF's system?
No.

Can my PMF be in a permit system?
No.

Who can I poke and prod to get an update on my player factions application status?
Brett C. Do not expect a timely response on PMF statuses. It's going to be one of the following: Waiting, Processing, Validating, Added, Rejected.

Great, I think I’m in the clear! What do I do now? Complete the form below and submit it. [up]

Community Manager

Hi all, am aware that there's minor factions that have had issues on influence, control, etc due to the 2.3 update. We've been monitoring and fixing the issues as they arise.

Additionally, numerous player minor factions did not make it in for the 2.3 update. Upfront, I would like to apologize for this. There is an ongoing check on who is and who is not in the game at this moment and if things are in proper sync from our sheet to the game. Additionally (x2!), please note that description changes are baked directly into the client, not queried from the server. I've a large list of PMF's awaiting an update on a description update as well.

I am leaving the thread closed at this point in time so things can be posted in a somewhat more organized fashion from me and/or others here at Frontier. I've received more than 100 emails and PM's asking the status of X or Y player minor factions over the past week to now. Unfortunately, due to the mass of emails and PM's i've received and workload right now, I won't be able to answer said messages as timely as I'd like to.

Community Manager

Major series of batch-segments sent. Will have a list of additional rejections and so forth this week or next week. Unfortunately, this next list of rejections will end up being quite large I am afraid.

As always... a reminder! I will on the spot reject a PMF application due to any of the following issues...

System locations that are consisting one or more of the following... lore important, permit restricted, starter zones/systems, important system(s) relating to an ongoing game event in the system or a nearby system, in use by another PMF.

Faction names that are... inappropriate, not elite/lore related, harassing, TOS violating, spam, IP violations, too similar of a name to another PMF.

Faction Descriptions that... make no sense, does not relate to your PMF, includes a website or email, incomplete, not-in-English.

Player Group Name that is incorrect or is not added on the original submission form. If i cannot contact you due to any issues, i will remove the submission row from our sheet - i will not chase around to find contact details.

Community Manager

Engineering is still working on minor factions. I won't be able to make changes/additions until they've finished processing the sheet.

As it stands right now, i'm trying my best to have hundreds of new PMF's added for the 2.3.x update series. So please, hold off on asking on if your minor faction is added or not. I don't have that updated data just yet!

Community Manager

Hi all, this is the tentative list of new player minor factions to be added into Elite. The only thing left for us to do now is to actually add these into the game world. If you do not see your group name on this list, it's either rejected, or on hold as i need to get in contact with the person who submitted it.

Community Manager

As a friendly request, please refrain from PM'ing me for the time being inquiring about the status of your minor faction if you do or do not see it on the list above.

I'll be in contact with the ones that were rejected / not on the list above as soon as i can be. This is by far the largest batch for Elite Dangerous that i've had to work with; so have had to take a different approach in all of this.

Community Manager

After quite a few complaints and questions raised this past week and a half... we're currently doing a recheck of a previous batch that may not have made it fully into the world of Elite.

If your minor faction application was between Late December 2016 and March 2017 - this is the batch that is being reviewed and added to Elite. With that being said, i've put my email correspondences on hold for the rejected factions until this is completed.

Once this is completed, will begin work on the up-to-August 2017 batch.

Community Manager

The following were added or updated, but had NPC system capacity issues. Please let me know if your system listed below has issues with missions and other related system 'chores/tasks'. From what we could see, there shouldn't be any issues - but if something goes awry, do let me know.